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The Secret Weapon

Winning Walk with Ed Young

November 29, 2020

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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.

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Dr Ed Young: it was a beautifulspring day, the sun was out, the
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sky was clear, the breeze was acooling breeze, what a
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fabulous time.
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And a whole bunch of familieswent out to a field, it was a
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beautiful field with greengrass, and the children were out
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there running in the fields andthe parents were standing around
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the field.
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It was one of those glorious, wewould call it bluebird days.
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We've had a whole bundle of themrecently.
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And it was a time of celebrationand a time of joy to see the
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children jumping and they werechasing butterflies, they were
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all in the air.
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When suddenly the parentsnoticed in the field there were
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land mines.
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And then they looked around andsaid, those are not butterflies,
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those are bullets.
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Everything changed.
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Radically changed.
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Now they were on a battlefield.
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A war.
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Totally unexpected.
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And things that were importantthat day, what we gonna have for
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dinner tonight, and what I'llwear to work tomorrow, and what
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about the children's schooling,and you know the bed I sleep on
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is too hard, and all thosethings in wartime, in true
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wartime, does not make a bit ofdifference.
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Now we've been talking about acultural war.
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What is that?
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We talked about all the battlesthat were in the culture of the
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United States.
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We dealt with those battles andwe've already talked about phase
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one, how we'll win the war, andnow we talk about phase two and
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winning the cultural war.
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But we have to understand, Ithink, what I picked up from
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Peter Kreeft, Professor atBoston College, is he talked
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about Chuck Colson.
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Chuck Colson gave us theseparameters, fundamental
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principles, all cultural wars,anytime, anyplace, in all
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of history.
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In all of history.
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This is how a culture operates.
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This ought to be written intoour minds and hearts so we can
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understand, philosophically atleast and functionally at least,
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where we are.
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First of all you have cops andconscience.
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Where you have a people, aculture, and they have a high
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degree of conscience, right andwrong, morality, you don't need
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a lot of cops.
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The crime areas is where youneed cops.
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In other areas you have a highdegree of conscience.
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But where you do not have a highdegree of conscience, you must
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have cops.
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So as you have more cops areneeded to keep law and order and
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harmony and safety with people,you know your conscience
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is declining.
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Where you have fewer copsoperative you know the
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conscience of those people ofthat area is increasing.
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These are both good things, theycomplement one another.
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Where you have community youdon't have to worry about chaos.
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Where you don't have communityalways you deal with chaos.
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And when you have chaos, thecops must come in.
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And if you continue to have acommunity that is not united, a
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community that is fighting, acommunity that has no harmony
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about it, always you have chaosand cops have to come in and you
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end up having anarchy.
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Dictatorship.Ruled by a few.
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The government top-heavy,handling everything else in the
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affairs of human beings.
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Now this is a fundamentalprinciples of all cultural wars.
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You can't argue with it.
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I don't think many people evertried to argue with it.
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And the question is, where arewe, ladies and gentlemen?
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We, right now, this moment, weare in that kind of battle in
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the day and age in which we arenow living.
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And if we do not understand thatand we do not see the importance
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of this battle, because it ismore vicious than any kind of
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context or any kind of warhumanity has ever been in.
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Get that.
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Understand that.
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Comprehend that.
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This is where we are today.
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Now, who is our enemy?
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We've been infected with adisease.
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If we can discover the cause ofthat disease, and we can decide
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who our enemy is, if you're in abattle you'd better know who
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your opposition is, who you'refighting with.
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Our enemy is the devil.
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It's evil.
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It's Satan.
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And somebody said, oh, you meanyou're going to bring out that
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guy in the red tights and thehorns and the pitchfork
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and the hooves?
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Listen, Jesus met the devilhead-on there in the Garden of
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Gethsemane before the cross.
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Jesus encountered evil forces,demonic forces, all the way
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through his ministry, all theway through his life on this
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earth, and he confronted them.
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And he knew the devil because hecreated the devil.
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Whoa! Time out!
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You mean Jesus created thedevil?
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He certainly did.
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We know a little bit about thatcosmic battle from the by Bible,
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way above our pay scale, butthat supernatural battle when
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the devil was created as anangel.
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And the devil and his entourage,they decided through pride they
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wanted to run their own life andhe wanted to be God.
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And in that battle he was thrownout of heaven.
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And therefore, we have Satan, afallen angel.
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Now a lot of people think,here's God, juxtaposed to God is
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Satan, Satan is evil and God isgood and that's the battle.
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No, Satan is not juxtaposed toGod.
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Satan is smarter than we are,more powerful than we are, but
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he is an angel not unlikeMichael, who was an archangel.
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Satan would be juxtaposed toMichael.
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He's not omnipotent, omniscient,or omnipresent, make no mistake
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about it.
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So we misunderstand that.
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Satan was a fallen angel, andtherefore his purpose is to
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undercut and to destroy, tokill, to deceive, to malign, to
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slander all of us.
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And by the way, he doesn't comedressed like that in a red suit
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with a pitchfork and horns, hecomes as a beautiful person, as
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a very congenial person, as avery sweet person, as a very
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warm, encouraging, cheerleadingsomeone we'd all want to listen
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to and learn from.
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An angel of light, fallen.
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That is the forces of evil thatwe see.
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Satan, that is our enemy and allof his emissaries, all
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the demons.
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And they operate in asupernatural area and they seek
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to invade and destroy the livesof all of us who are created in
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the image of God.
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By the way, the 20th century, Ibelieve, was the century of
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the devil.
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It's almost like the devil wentbefore God and said, give me one
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century, all I want is onecentury.
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So the 20th century, it seemsthat the devil operated strong
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in the 20th century than anyother time in history.
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Well, where do you get that?
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Pol Pot, Cambodia, the KillingFields, Stalin, Gulag.
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How many millions?
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--how many millions?
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Idi Amin, Adolph Hitler, you goon and on.
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The Ukraine.
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Hitler, we know, purposelystarved over ten million in
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the Ukraine.
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They asked him about it, hesaid, ten million is a
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statistic, nobody pays anyattention to that, but one
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person starved to death, oh,that brings emotion.
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Over 100 million people in the20th century, totally
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obliterated, life was taken fromthem by demonic people.
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By demonic people.
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Normal human beings can't dothat, this was Satan in the
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lives of those who destroyedmany thousands, millions, the
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20th century, the bloodiestcentury of genocide in the
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history of humanity.
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It was, we might say, thedevil's century.
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Who's our enemy?The devil.
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Then we've got to ask thequestion,
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what kind of war are we in?
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We're in a war, let's look atthe battlefield in which we're
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fighting this war.
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It's a different kind ofbattlefield, very different kind
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of battlefield.
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I want you to look at Matthewchapter number 10.
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Jesus is speaking, he tells usabout the battlefield.
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Listen.
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Verse 26, therefore, do not fearthem, for there is nothing
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concealed that will not berevealed, or hidden that will
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not be known.
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Jesus said, when I tell you inthe darkness, speak in
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the light.
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And what you hear whispered inyour ear, proclaim abutting
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the housetops.
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Do not fear those who kill thebody, listen carefully, but are
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unable to kill the soul.
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But rather fear him who is ableto destroy both soul and body
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in hell.
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What's he saying?
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Don't worry about those who cankill our bodies.
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They're not made to lastforever, we've talked
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about that.
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What is made to last forever isyour soul and my soul.
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We've defined that anything thatis not flesh is our soul.
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And therefore, we're in a warfor soul.
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You see how much more criticalit is?
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The battle we're in is not, youknow, for our bodies, that's not
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the war we're in, it's a bodyfor that soul, that part that
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will be with you and be with meforever and forever and forever.
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There's where the battle is.
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And that battle is ten zilliontimes more critical than any
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human physical wars we findourselves in.
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It's our soul.
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That's where the war is, andthat is the most critical war
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that anybody can be.
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It's a battle for the soul, thatintangible part of us.
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And we have in our world a senseof spirituality.
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The biggest religion in Americais spirituality.
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And those who are spiritualpeople, they do not accept the
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soul as we do, because theirLord God Almighty is science,
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and science can't define it andsee it and and spell it out and
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put it out where we can all getahold of it.
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You see, that's what happened,it is the soul.
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And when birth takes place,fire, passion comes out in
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every individual.
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That's our soul.
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What we do with that fire, whatwe do with that passion that's
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within every human being is soimportant.
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Billy Graham, he had that firewhen he was born, and Billy
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Graham took that fire in hislife and when God called him and
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changed his life he took thatfire and he became
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Johnny One-Note.
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Billy Graham had a chance to runwith a very prominent candidate
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to be Vice President of theUnited States.
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He turned it down.
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He had offers from colleges,universities, businesses,
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corporations that you would notbelieve on this earth.
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And he just turned his back onall of that, he said, I have one
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thing I do, I'm in the soulbusiness for God.
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And that one thing that he did,that is true spirituality.
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By the same token Janis Joplin.
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Janis Joplin was born, bang, shehad that fire, gifted, creative,
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smart, passionate, but she wasscattered all over the place.
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Drugs, sex, fun, literature,songs.
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Janis was gifted, greatlygifted--
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of Billy Graham, but she got soscattered and so confused at all
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the lack of oneness, she wasdead at 27.
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Twenty-seven.
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So we have this fire, but thatfire has to be held together by
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the glue that Jesus Christ givesto every personality.
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So there is fire and there isglue.
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There is fire and there iswater.
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You can take steel and put it infire and you can bend it around
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but water will take that andtemper that and let it stay
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in place.
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We have to have both, fire andcontinuity.
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Fire and continuity.
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It is our soul, and that iswhere the battle is for you and
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for me in this world.
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Our enemy is the Devil, thebattle is in spiritual areas.
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And we know the battle for thesoul is what this cultural war
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is all about.
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Don't be misled.
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Then we ask, what are theweapons of the enemy?
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What are the weapons that Satanis using in this war?
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We talked about them.
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There's a battle for truth.
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It's amazing to me in thepostmodern age how truth is
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totally confused.
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It's diluted.
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And truth becomes whatever youwant it to be.
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What would you like to be true?
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What is really happening?
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You see this?
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Oh, I don't know, I'm gonnainterpret the way I wanna
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interpret it.
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So truth is absolutely a majorissue at this moment, this day
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and age.
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What is truth?
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Truth is under attack.
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Also satan has put peace bannersall over the playing field, all
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over the battlefield, saying,let's make peace.
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Oh yeah.What did Jesus say?
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He said, peace I bring to you,but not the peace that the world
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gives, his kind of peace istotally different, ladies
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and gentlemen.
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What kind of peace does he giveus?
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The world says cessation ofconflict.
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Okay, we're gonna compromise,we're going to make peace.
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And here's God and Satan, whydon't they just get together?
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That would be the thing to do,wouldn't it?
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Oh no, Jesus says, I come tobring peace in a different way
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than the world.
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What kind of peace did he bring?
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What kind of peace did he giveto us?
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Peace with God through Christ,peace with ourselves, we need
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it, and peace with other people.
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That's a supernatural peace thathe brings to the table, and
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that's his weapon.
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What is the primary weapon thatSatan uses?
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Satan most wants, more thananything else, to destroy
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the family.
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How's that working out?
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How is that working out?
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The reason we're so dogmaticabout marriages we conduct in
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this church, it's because we tryto work clearly with the bride
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and the groom to let them knowoutside of the decision they
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make for Christ, this is themost life-changing,
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determinative decision they'llever make.
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So we don't marry everybody whowalks in the door, and a lot of
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the families get upset about it.
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That's okay, unless we'remarrying in Christ, we have seen
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through all of these years whathappens.
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Satan is in the business ofdestroying the family.
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What weapon is he using primaryto destroy the family?
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We go right back.
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It is sex.
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Let me tell you something.
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Here are parents, here are thechildren.
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The sexual understanding ofchildren as they move away
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different from their parents, itbegins to change the family.
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And then the next generation,those children move further away
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from the sexual understanding oftheir parents, it even gets a
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greater distance.
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This is what is happening.
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This is what was happening.
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This is what's taking place.
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And the very core of the family,united in God, in Christ, one
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flesh, oh, it's being destroyed.
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That is the primary target ofSatan in this whole universe,
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and he loves to attack families.
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Then we have to question, well,how do we win the war?
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We see all the barrage we'repart of in our secular world.
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we see the family as beingdecimated right before us,
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redefined, marriage redefined,family redefined.
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Well, what weapons do we have?
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What weapons do we have in God'sarmy?
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I can tell you, we are going towin the cultural war.
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How do we know that?
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Because light eliminatesdarkness.
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Because truth is stronger than alie.
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And because the Lord JesusChrist is King of Kings and Lord
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of Lords, and not just averbiage, he really is,
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in actuality.
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[audience applauding]
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What's the secret weapon thatwe've got?
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That we forget?
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A weapon that always wins, aweapon that is invincible, a
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weapon that is so powerful inthe cultural war that we have
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for the souls of humanity.
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What is that weapon?
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I can tell you what it is, it isthe blood of our Lord
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and savior Jesus Christ.
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And what do we do?
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We have to have and usesanctity.
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Whoa, sanctity?
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Absolutely.
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We need sanctity.
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We are saints.
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If you're in Christ and Christis in you, he's your Lord and
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your savior, guess what you are?
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A saint.
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And as a saint, I'll tell ya,that's a battle that we'll
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always win, because you and I assaints, we're the blood bank of
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God Almighty, and we will getengaged in a war and we will be
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the blood bank and that bloodthrough you and me, which is
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Agape love flowing out, isabsolutely invincible.
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Now we're going to win the war
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if we are tenacious, strong,
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and we just don't quit.
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By the way, a saint is supposedto be nice, right?
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Wrong.
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Saints are not nice.
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Nice people never end up on across, have you noticed that?
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You ever heard, there's a realnice person and we had to
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kill them?
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That never happens, never hashappened.
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Saints are not nice because webecome warriors in the culture
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in which we live, and that's notpopular, that's not accepted,
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that'll pull us away from thisand charge us into this.
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Oh yeah.
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Saints are not nice, they'rewarriors and they keep on, keep
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on, keep on keeping on.
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How do you become a saint?
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The old Broadway thing.
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♪ Why not take all of me? ♪
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♪ Take all. ♪♪
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Remember that old Broadway?Take all of me.
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We go to the Lord, I go, Lord, Iwant you to take all of me.
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When I made my commitment toChrist, a long time ago, I went
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down the aisle, they handed me acard, I didn't know what to say,
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I was a Christian, I said, Lord,I give you all that I am and all
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I'll ever be, that's exactlywhat I wrote down.
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I give you all that I am and allthat I'll ever be.
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The only problem is I've taken alot of that back.
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Here It is, Lord, I lay it all,oh, we take it back.
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And so we say, Lord, why won'tyou take all of me?
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I wanna be in your army I wantto be a saint, a true Christian.
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And the Lord said, well, justgive me all.
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I have.
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It's gonna take grace.
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Oh, yeah, Lord, I've given yougrace, just give me all, that's
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all, take all of me.
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And then we become his bloodbank and that blood is the Agape
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love of God in Jesus Christ, andnothing can stop that flow from
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the life of a saint.
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Remember we talked about this?
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This is part two of how to winthe war.
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We talked about this.
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What do we do?We speak love.
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What do we teach? You remember?Truth.
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How do we live?Pure.
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What happens when anyonemeasures up to these beginning
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steps of sainthood?
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Persecution.
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Persecution.
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If you're not at cross-purposeswith individuals and peoples and
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cults and understanding in thisworld, you're not in the battle.
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You're not in the battle.
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You may think you are, you'renot in the battle.
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To win the war there has to bean attitude that Winston
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Churchill had.
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Remember Churchill?
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He spoke to his alma mater andhe gave a short address in the
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middle of the Second World War.
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He said, never quit.
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He said, never, never, never,never, never, never, never,
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never, never, never quit.
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That's it.
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We must never quit because theblood of Jesus Christ is more
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powerful than anything thisworld will ever, ever, ever,
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ever, ever, ever understand.
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[audience applauding]
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male announcer: For a limitedtime, Dr. Ed Young would like to
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send you a copy of his sermonseries, "Culture Clash."
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Dr Ed Young: Ladies andgentlemen, we are in a war.
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male announcer: There's a battlegoing on for the moral fabric of
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our culture.
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The church, marriage, truth, andlife itself are all under attack
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by those who wish to remove Godfrom our world.
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Dr Ed Young: They're seeking toredefine everything in
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our culture.
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male announcer: So how do westand strong in our faith and
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help turn the tide when ourculture seems lost?
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In his series, "Culture Clash,"Dr. Ed Young gives us the
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answers from God's Word to themoral crisis we face today.
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These and compromising messageswill challenge you to stand up
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and help win our culture back toGod.
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To get the series, "CultureClash," call the number on your
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screen, or go online atwinningwalk.org.
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it's our gift to you for yourfinancial support of The
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Winning Walk.
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Dr Ed Young: We're in a culturalwar, one that is intended not
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only to redefine marriage, butwill have a devastating impact
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on the family.
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As Christians, what are we todo?
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2 Chronicles 7:14 says that ifmy people, who call by my name,
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will humble themselves and prayand seek my face and turn from
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their wicked ways, then, saysthe Lord, I will hear from
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heaven and will forgive theirsins and heal their land.
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I want to challenge you to setaside time each day at 7:14 in
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the morning and 7:14 in theevening to seek God's face.
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I've been doing that now forseveral weeks and I can tell
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you, when that alarm goes off onmy phone, it's a privilege to
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take a moment and seek the faceof God on behalf of the land in
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which we live.
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If we will truly turn our eyestoward him in prayer, he will
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intervene against the forcesthat are tearing our families
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and our world apart.
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It is my prayer that you willspend this time daily with the
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Lord, 7:14 in the morning, 7:14,in the evening.
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Spend that time as we seek toturn our lives back over to him.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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